Please take a look at this one, how do you think about it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9xl1cIQdk0

Sun Jijun is arguably the best old school Baguazhang practitioner alive. He is from the same village as Cheng Tinghua and studied with Cheng's brother when he was young.

I trained with him several times in Beijing, his skill was phenomenal.

He is an accomplished caligrapher as well (he painted the "Shen Wu" characters that I use as my logo. I have several of his works hanging in my academy).

Hi Tim,

Thanks for you instant reply.

To my great supprise that you ever trained with Master Sun several times. I initially learned from his best student Shao ZongMing, who ever won the champion in 1986's China national WuShu championship ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U76geZS0UA ), then trained with Sun and his learnning-mate Duan BenZhang (Both are Cheng youxin's indoor students). Now I live in Vancouver and am looking for some comrades to train together. Very pity you are a little bit far from my place, otherwise we can share our understanding in BaGua.

i just gotta say that that was freakin awesome! so im guessing that within those forms are grappling and throwing applications?

Correct.

Bruce
Tim is coming to Seattle in November 4-5 this year, and while we are not doing anything "specifically" Bagua-ish, we are always covering concepts that you will find in your Bagua practice. Not to mention Tim is available for private lessons as well. Contact me privately for more info three_harmonies@hotmail.com

Also my Mantis teacher lives up in Van, so I am rather familiar with the local players and can help you find something if you need.
Cheers
Jake

Tim
Please excuse my ignorance, but how is this different/same as Swimming Dragon Bagua? Looks very similar to what I have seen in that regard, but I know just about nothing about Bagua.
Either way it is beautiful to watch! Solid player!
Jake

Most of Cheng Tinghua's students came up with their own variations of what they learned, and chose different names for their forms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pu4Wic-YJ4

Tim studied under Sun Lu Tang's daughter, Ba Gua, also, though this is Tai Chi.

Hi Jake,

Sorry for my late reply since I've not come back here for some time.

Thanks for your great message about Tim and your friends in Van. If I've time to go to Seattle, I'll let you know.

Thanks again.

Bruce

I am currently living in Beijing. I really loved the video and I would be interested if Sun Jijun or or his students teach? I speak Chinese fairly well so communication isn't a problem.